It makes sense - thanks for the explanation! btw I would recommend that we add this info to the official protobuf documentation (currently it is available only in the changelog)
- Srivats On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Kenton Varda <[email protected]> wrote: > Consider the case where you define a message Foo in foo.proto, and then you > extend it in bar.proto. When generating code for foo.proto, protoc doesn't > necessarily know anything about bar.proto, so how could it generate anything > based on the extensions defined there? Instead, extensions are generated in > the scope where they are defined. > > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Srivats P <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> As per CHANGES.txt for "2009-05-13 version 2.1.0" >> <snip> >> * For each field, the generated code contains an integer constant >> assigned >> to the field number. For example, the .proto file: >> message Foo { optional int bar_baz = 123; } >> would generate the following constants, all with the integer value 123: >> C++: Foo::kBarBazFieldNumber >> Java: Foo.BAR_BAZ_FIELD_NUMBER >> Python: Foo.BAR_BAZ_FIELD_NUMBER >> Constants are also generated for extensions, with the same naming >> scheme. >> These constants may be used as switch cases. >> </snip> >> >> All my .proto files use a global namespace via the "package MyProto" >> directive. >> >> The constants for members of message Foo are in the MyProto::Foo >> namespace while extension members of Foo are in the MyProto:: >> namespace (not MyProto::Foo). Is this intentional? If so, the above >> changelog snippet seems to indicate otherwise. >> >> Regards, >> Srivats >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Protocol Buffers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/protobuf?hl=en.
